Activity

Activity shows a full list of activities and events that have occurred on your site. Free plans are limited to viewing only the past 20 events, whereas WordPress.com paid plans have access to their complete site activity.

Table of Contents

1. Type of Activities Recorded
2. Viewing Your Site’s Activity
3. Data Retention
4. Backups

Type of Activities Recorded

The events stored in your site’s Activity include:

• Published or updated posts and pages.
• Comment submission and management activity.
• Theme switches.
• Settings and options modifications.
• And more. See the full list.

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Viewing Your Site's Activity

To view the Activity for your site, go to Jetpack → Activity Log from the left sidebar of your site dashboard.

Accessing the Activity Log.

You’ll now be able to view the recent events recorded for your site. It looks like this:

Activity screen.

Only the most recent 1,000 events are displayed in Activity. The timestamp displayed in Activity matches the timezone you’ve set in your site’s settings (configured from Settings → General in your site’s dashboard).

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Data Retention

The retention periods for Activity data depend on both the activity itself and the site’s plan.

Activity	Free	Personal (Legacy)	Premium (Legacy)	Business & eCommerce (Legacy)	Pro
Users: additions, deletions, network deletions, registrations, invite acceptance, removals, updates	30 days	30 days	30 days	Forever	Forever
Attachments: uploads, updates, deletions	30 days	30 days	30 days	Forever	Forever
Comments: submissions, approvals, un-approvals, content edits, deletions, trash actions, spam/un-spam actions, restorations from trash	30 days	30 days	30 days	Forever	Forever
Feedback: Contact Form submissions	30 days	30 days	30 days	Forever	Forever
Settings: settings updates	30 days	30 days	30 days	Forever	Forever
Menus: additions, updates, deletions	30 days	30 days	30 days	Forever	Forever
Themes: theme activations	30 days	30 days	30 days	Forever	Forever
Posts & Pages: publish actions, updates, deletions, trash actions, imports, exports*	30 days	30 days	30 days	Forever	Forever
Widgets: additions, updates, removals, reorders, set-to-inactive actions	30 days	30 days	30 days	Forever	Forever
WordPress: plan activations/deactivations, new blog followers	Forever	Forever	Forever	Forever	Forever

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At the end of any retention periods outlined above, activity data is moved to long-term storage and is retained indefinitely. Once in long-term storage, activity data will no longer be visible in a site’s Activity.

If there is no activity on your site for longer than the retention period, you’ll see a screen that looks like this:

Once you make any changes to your site that are recorded in your Activity, this screen will appear as normal.

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Backups

This section of the guide applies to sites with our WordPress.com Pro plan. If your site has one of our legacy plans, it is available on Business and eCommerce.

Sites with a plugin-enabled plan have the option to restore their site to a previous version from Activity.